Vienna Philharmonic, Martha Argerich and Zubin Mehta – Schumann: Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 54 & Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 in E-Flat Major (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:39:47 minutes | 997 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Platoon
The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra (German: Wiener Philharmoniker) is a symphony orchestra based in Vienna, Austria, and considered one of the best in the world.
The main concert hall of the orchestra is it. Musikverein is a concert hall of the Society of Music Lovers (Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde). The musicians are recruited from the Vienna Opera Orchestra, where they must first play for at least three years. The orchestra was founded in 1842 by Otto Nicolai.
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Lang Lang, Vienna Philharmonic, Valery Gergiev – Liszt: My Piano Hero (2011)
DSD64 (.dsf) 1 bit/2,82 MHz | Time – 01:05:38 minutes | 2,58 GB
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:05:38 minutes | 1,29 GB
Souce: SACD-R | Artwork: Front Cover | Genre: Classical | © Sony Classics
To celebrate the 200th anniversary of Franz Liszt’s birth, virtuoso pianist Lang Lang has selected some of the composer’s most characteristic pieces for his 2011 Sony release, Liszt: My Piano Hero. Prominent on this album is the Piano Concerto No. 1 in E flat major, which features Lang Lang in a high-energy performance with Valery Gergiev and the Vienna Philharmonic. Without a doubt, most of Lang Lang’s fans will savor this Romantic showpiece, and for technical brilliance and drama, the performance doesn’t disappoint. He is especially lively and vivid in this work, and his interactions with the orchestra seem spontaneous and playful, as one might well imagine Liszt would have been. But Lang Lang seems more introspective and personally involved with the solo keyboard pieces that make up the greater part of the album. Here also is the flashy side of Liszt, but there is a greater emphasis on the poetic and rhapsodic, so Lang Lang indulges in reflective pieces as much as the flashy encores. Highlights include La Campanella, the Grand Galop chromatique, Liebestraum No. 3, the Hungarian Rhapsody No. 6, and the arrangement of Schubert’s Ave Maria.
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John Barbirolli, Vienna Philharmonic – Brahms: Complete Symphonies (1968) [Japan 2012]
PS3 Rip | 4x SACD ISO | DSD64 Stereo > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 215:38 minutes | Scans included | 8,7 GB
or FLAC 2.0 Stereo (converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | Scans included | 3,76 GB
The music of Brahms held an important place in Sir John Barbirolli’s repertoire and these recordings of the symphonies, made with the Vienna Philharmonic in 1966 and 1967, stand as one of the peaks of his discography. Barbirolli’s relationship with this music is rooted in his time as an orchestral cellist, and these performances are notable for their rich, ripe sonorities and expansive warmth. This Japanese SACD reissue features the 2011’s EMI Remaster.
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Valery Gergiev, Vienna Philharmonic – Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.6 (2005)
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 & 5.1 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 44:00 minutes | Artwork (PDF) | 3,17 GB
or FLAC 2.0 Stereo (converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | Full Artwork (PDF) | 807 MB
Features 2.0 Stereo and 5.1 multichannel surround sound | Decca/Philips # 475 6197
Tchaikovsky’s six symphonie by Valery Gergiev leading the Vienna Philharmonic contains performances that are undeniably fire-breathing, undoubtedly heaven-storming, and inarguably heart-on-sleeve. Gergiev, one of the most exciting Russian conductors, leads the works with a combination of reckless passion, imperious command, and unbearable drama that is his hallmark, and the Vienna Philharmonic, one of the finest Austrian orchestras, plays the works with a combination of superb polish, impeccable technique, and warm colors that are its trademark and the fusion is absolutely riveting.
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Vienna Philharmonic & Karl Böhm – Karl Böhm conducts Hindemith & Bruckner (Live, Remastered) (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:18:11 minutes | 565 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © audite Musikproduktion
He did not thrust himself into the limelight but put himself, with economical, clear gestures, entirely at the service of the music: amongst the conductors of his time, Karl B”ohm epitomized the anti-star. In the summer of 1964 he delighted the Lucerne audience with a compellingly flowing and cantabile reading of Bruckner’s Seventh – of course at the helm of “his” Vienna Philharmonic, with whom he was also to perform a buoyant Hindemith concerto six years later.
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George Szell, Vienna Philharmonic, Georg Hann, Jarmila Novotna – R. Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier, Op. 59, TrV 227 (Live) (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 03:01:19 minutes | 1,76 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Archipel
Richard Strauss is most conspicuously represented in the symphony hall through a handful of the tone poems he produced from the late 1880s through the early years of the twentieth century, some of which—like Death and Transfiguration, Till Eulenspiegel, and Thus Spake Zarathustra—represent high points of their genre. He seemed to draw a double-bar on that phase of his career after writing Symphonia domestica in 1902-03, and he returned to the genre only once more, when An Alpine Symphony occupied him from 1911 to 1915. Apart from that, his production of symphonic poems gave way to his growing interest in composing operas, which was most immediately manifested in Salome (premiered in 1905) and Elektra (1909).
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